Located in the city of Mississauga in Ontario, the two towers stand at about 492 and 557 feet, respectively. Apartments are located on each oval-shaped floor and the levels are rotated gradually to give the towers that unique curvy outline.

15.2.13

A masterclass in green architecture, the Lotus Flower ArtScience Museum, in Singapure, features 21 gallery spaces totaling 50,000 square feet (6,000 s.m.) that will deliver exhibits from art and science, media and technology, to design and architecture.

7.2.13

Are you familiar with the term “cybertecture”? Well, in case you are not, let me explain the concept to you, as simple as possible. Cybertecture, is the point where architecture, technology and innovative engineering get together, in order to sculpt the urban environment.

James Law Cybertecture, Cybertecture Egg, Office Building, Mumbai

Pretty cool hah? Well, I sure think so.

Not so sure yet? Just check out the Cybertecture Egg, in Mumbai, India, an astonishing 33,000 square meters office space, stacked in 13 stories with highly intelligent building management systems and 3 levels of basement providing 400 car parking spaces.

James Law Cybertecture, Cybertecture Egg, Office Building, Mumbai

According to James Law Cybertecture, the Architects, (or should I say the Cybertects?), behind this impressive office building structure, the Cybertecture Egg is a Cybertecture building that brings together iconic architecture, environmental design, intelligent control systems, and evolutionary engineering to create the most innovative building for the city of Mumbai and for India in the 21st Century.

Floating between the water and sky, at the entrance to the Old Port of Marseille, a national museum opens its doors.

Rudy Riccioti, MuCEM, Marceille - Photo by Lisa Ricciotti

Open to the sea, it draws a horizon where the two shores of the Mediterranean can meet. Never before has a museum been specifically dedicated to the cultures of the Mediterranean, despite their richness from the perspective of history and civilization.

Rudy Riccioti, MuCEM, Marceille - Photo by Lisa Ricciotti

Now a reality, the MuCEM will be inaugurated in 2013, at the very moment when Marseille will be the European Capital of Culture.

Rudy Riccioti, MuCEM, Marceille - Photo by Lisa Ricciotti

More than a museum, a cultural city, drawing on all the disciplines of the humanities and social sciences, mobilizing the artistic expressions of both shores of the Mediterranean.

Rudy Riccioti, MuCEM, Marceille - Photo by Lisa Ricciotti

Upon entering the Gallery of the Mediterranean, on the first floor of the J4 building, the public will discover, over 1,600 m², a presentation of the major events in the history of the civilisations of the Mediterranean basin.

The new ice rink of Liège is embedded into a crevice of the Médiacité, private real estate development project which came to redevelop a former industrial site on the right bank of the Meuse. It inherits several constraints that it clarifies in an autonomous and unitary form, until incorporating the access to the mall's car park in its climax: the whale’s head.

As the opacity of the building is essential to insulate it from the heat, it is its entire body, by its nature, its material and its shape that means the relational dimension it wants to maintain with its environment.

22.1.13

Talking about future architecture, please, say hello to KSEVT, formally known as The Cultural Center of European Technologies in Slovenia. A place I had no idea even existed until I stumbled on this informative article on KNSTRT.

Would you ever guess that a tiny little Slovenia mountain village is the home to a ground breaking rocket engineer who pioneered theories on long-term human habitation of space? That’s right! Herman Potocnik Noordung, the first theoretician of space, was raised on the hillside of Vitanje. It is Potocnik’s theoretical work that brings the new Cultural Center of European Space Technologies (KSEVT) to the small town today.

OFIS Architects, The Cultural Center Of European Space Technologies, Slovenia

14.1.13

Spending most of my day working in an office building I find plain and boring, I was so happy to discover this imaginative office building design proposal, by IAMZ Design Studio, for the new L'Oreal offices in Stockholm Sweden. The article was short but the pictures, made my heart go Boom Boom and I just had to share it with you.

10.1.13

When it comes to residential projects, there is nothing that we love more than when exceptionally talented people get together and create high-end yet affordable homes.Given a chance I would be in that pool enjoying a frozen margarita, any time!